Bangladesh’s Eurovision Asia selection has one of the most confused information trails in the whole contest. Two different dates are still circulating, and the one people keep finding first is wrong.
Let us settle it.
The date: 30 September, not 23 August
Voice of Bangladesh takes place on Wednesday 30 September 2026 at 21:00 BST (17:00 CEST).
An earlier date of 23 August was widely reported when NTV first outlined its plans. That date has now passed with no Bangladeshi selection. Organisers moved the show, and the official national final schedule lists 30 September.
If you find a page still saying 23 August, it predates the change. This discrepancy is one of several we log in our Eurovision Asia fact-check.
Who’s hosting
Tahsan Khan — one of Bangladesh’s most recognisable singers and actors — will present the national final.
That is a notable casting. Khan is a genuine crossover star rather than a television presenter, and it puts Bangladesh in line with the Philippines, which cast Vice Ganda for its selection. Broadcasters are treating these selections as major primetime events, not procedural qualifiers.
The format
Twelve artists will compete in the televised final — the largest field of any Eurovision Asia national selection announced so far, ahead of the Philippines’ ten and South Korea’s eight.
The jury has been confirmed, and the structure is unusual: public voting will decide the winner, though the jury may also carry a role in the final result. That is a looser formulation than the clean 40/40/20 splits used by Bhutan and the Philippines, and the exact weighting has not been published.
Entry rules mirror the contest itself — original songs, under three minutes, maximum six people on stage.
Where to watch
Voice of Bangladesh airs on NTV and streaming platform Bongo, plus the official Eurovision YouTube channel internationally.
As with every Eurovision Asia selection, there is a Rest of the World vote open to anyone regardless of location. The rule people trip over: eight free votes, but they must be spread across at least three songs. Full mechanics in our voting guide.
Why Bangladesh matters here
Two reasons worth noting.
It closes the season. Bangladesh is the last of the September selections. Only Mongolia on 10 October and an unscheduled Vietnam come after it, meaning the Bangladeshi entry lands with the field almost fully assembled — and very little time for the winner to build momentum before Bangkok.
It’s a large market with no Eurovision history. Bangladesh has never had any route into the Eurovision family, and its music scene is essentially unknown to the international Eurovision audience. Whatever wins on 30 September will be a genuine unknown quantity to juries drawn from across the region.
Still unconfirmed
- The twelve competing artists and their songs
- The exact jury/public weighting
- Whether songs will be in Bengali, English or both
We will update as NTV publishes details. Meanwhile, the wider picture of under-covered selections is in our piece on the selections nobody is covering, and every confirmed date is on the national selection calendar.
Last updated 25 August 2026.